The Civil Society organizations that work with defense and promotion of humans rights subscribe the following pronunciation. Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association is one of them. The document alerts Venezuela against the severe situation of shortage that puts in danger the life of thousands of Venezuelan “just like the implementation of the Plan Quirúrgico Nacional with components that discriminate the constitutional rights of Venezuelan people”.

The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) released a note expressing a deep concern about the $1.08 billion cut to Global HIV Programs on the president’s proposed budget. If this budged is approved, vital global HIV programs such as President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will be threatened.

According to Global Forum on MSM and HIV, the NSWP, GATE, MSMGF, and others, are deeply disappointed by the adoption of a flawed Political Declaration at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS (HLM). The Political Declaration inexcusably fails to meaningfully address the HIV epidemic among key populations, including gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who use drugs, and transgender people.